A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... turn is opposed by the attempt to restore , with philosophical justification , a belief in absolute standards and permanent and unvarying truths existing above , and unaffected by , sensible phenomena and individual actions and events ...
... turn is opposed by the attempt to restore , with philosophical justification , a belief in absolute standards and permanent and unvarying truths existing above , and unaffected by , sensible phenomena and individual actions and events ...
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... turn is lord over the animals , beneath which come plants and lowest of all the inanimate world . God himself has ordained that there should be higher and lower orders of being , and intended that a similar pattern should be followed in ...
... turn is lord over the animals , beneath which come plants and lowest of all the inanimate world . God himself has ordained that there should be higher and lower orders of being , and intended that a similar pattern should be followed in ...
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... turns into violent hatred of those who have stated most clearly and most forcibly that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things ' . 2 ? The fullest and most influential attack on Plato and ...
... turns into violent hatred of those who have stated most clearly and most forcibly that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things ' . 2 ? The fullest and most influential attack on Plato and ...
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... turn philosophy from the search for truth into a means of satisfying the demands of selfishness and vanity ; and that the only way out was that of Socrates , who sought to win back by reason a deeper , surer foundation for both ...
... turn philosophy from the search for truth into a means of satisfying the demands of selfishness and vanity ; and that the only way out was that of Socrates , who sought to win back by reason a deeper , surer foundation for both ...
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... turn their former allies into subjects . If asked by what right they did this , they would reply as Thucydides shows them doing in the Melian Dialogue that it is a ' law of nature ' that the stronger should do what is in their power and ...
... turn their former allies into subjects . If asked by what right they did this , they would reply as Thucydides shows them doing in the Melian Dialogue that it is a ' law of nature ' that the stronger should do what is in their power and ...
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A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenment William Keith Chambers Guthrie No preview available - 1962 |
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